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"I aer hold your ehtly, Aviendha Maidens are as foolish as men when it comes to that; I re e them in clouds it always Just be sure you do not release them too often, or when it is best to keep control of them"

Melaine leaned forward on her hands, until it see from her face must fall on the hot kettle "You know your fate, Aviendha You will be a Wise One of great strength and great authority, and th in you It saw you through your first test, and it will see you through this"

"My honor," Aviendha said hoarsely, then sed, unable to go on She crouched there, huddling around the gourd as if it contained the honor she wanted to protect

"The Pattern does not see ji’e’toh," Bair told her, with only a hint of sympathy, if that "Only what ainst fate even when it is clear the Pattern weaves on despite their struggles, but you are no longer Far Dareis Mai Youto the Pattern can you begin to have soht, the Pattern will still force you, and you will find only ht have found contentwene, that sounded verythe One Power To control saidar, you first had to surrender to it Fight, and it would coently, and it did as you wished But that did not explain why they wanted Aviendha to do this thing She asked as , Amys said, "Will Rand al’Thor refuse to allow her? We cannot force hiwene as intently as A to tell her why It was easier to ainst her will Aviendha was studying her toes in sulky resignation; she knew the Wise Ones would get what they wanted, one way or another

"I don’t know," Egwene said slowly "I do not know hiretted that, but sothat she did not love hi, in the Tower as well as here, had changed things just as ood reason, perhaps I think he likes Aviendha" The young Aiel woood reason," Bair snorted "When I was a girl, anywoone to pick the flowers for her bridal wreath hilared at the Wise Ones with some of her old spirit "Well, ill find a reason even someone raised in the wetlands can accept"

"It is several nights before your agreedin Tel’aran’rhiod," Amys said "With Nynaeve, this time"

"That one could learn hts are free until then," Melaine said "That is, unless you have been entering Tel’aran’rhiod without us"

Egwene suspected as co "Of course not," she told them It had only been a little Any more than a little, and they would find out for sure

"Have you succeeded in finding either Nynaeve’s or Elayne’s drea

"No, A so into Tel’aran’rhiod, the World of Dreams, especially if they were any distance away It was easier both the closer they were and the better you knew them The Wise Ones still demanded that she not enter Tel’aran’rhiod without at least one of theerous in its oay In Tel’aran’rhiod she was in control of herself and of things around her to a large degree, unless one of the Wise Ones decided to take over; her co, but she still could notexperience In another’s dreah, you were a part of that dream; it took all you could muster not to behave as the dreamer wanted, be as their dream took you, and still sometimes it did not work The Wise Ones had been very careful atching Rand’s dreams never to enter fully Even so they insisted she learn If they were to teach drea, they meant to teach all that they knew of it

She was not reluctant, exactly, but the few times they had let her practice, with the experiences The Wise Ones had some considerable mastery over their own dreaers, they said -- had all been their doing, but it had been a shock to learn that Rhuarc saw her as a little hters And her own control had wavered for one fatal moment After that she had been little more than a child; she still could not look at thehard And being as pleased with the gift as with his approval Amys had had to co was bad enough, but she suspected that Rhuarc re," Ath to reach them, even as far as they are And it will do you no harm to learn how they see you"

She was not so sure of that herself Elayne was a friend, but Nynaeve had been Wisdo up She suspected Nynaeve’s dreaht I will sleep away from the tents," Amys went on "Not far You should be able to find me easily, if you try If I do not dreawene suppressed a groan Auided her to Rhuarc’s drea enough to reveal that Rhuarc still saw her, unchanged, as the young woman he had married -- and the Wise Ones had always been in the sa her hands, "we have heard what needed to be heard The rest of you can reo toor not, she could probably run any of theround, then carry